Earthquake Supercycles Inferred from Sea-Level Changes Recorded in the Corals of West Sumatra

Sieh, Kerry and Natawidjaja, Danny H. and Meltzner, Aron J. and Shen, Chuan-Chou and Cheng, Hai and Li, Kuei-Shu and Suwargadi, Bambang W. and Galetzka, John and Philibosian, Belle and Edwards, R. Lawrence (2008) Earthquake Supercycles Inferred from Sea-Level Changes Recorded in the Corals of West Sumatra. Science, 322 (5908). pp. 1674-1678. ISSN 0036-8075. doi:10.1126/science.1163589. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20090708-145717286

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Abstract

Records of relative sea-level change extracted from corals of the Mentawai islands, Sumatra, imply that this 700-kilometer-long section of the Sunda megathrust has generated broadly similar sequences of great earthquakes about every two centuries for at least the past 700 years. The moment magnitude 8.4 earthquake of September 2007 represents the first in a series of large partial failures of the Mentawai section that will probably be completed within the next several decades.

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ORCID:

Author	ORCID
Sieh, Kerry	0000-0002-7311-2447
Meltzner, Aron J.	0000-0002-2955-0896

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© 2009 American Association for the Advancement of Science. 22 July 2008; accepted 8 October 2008. This work has been supported by NSF grants EAR-9628301, 9804732, 9903301, 0208508, 0530899, 0538333, and 0809223 (to K.S.) and EAR-0207686 and 0537973 (to R.L.E.); by National Science Council grants 94-2116-M002-012 and 95&96-2752-M002-012-PAE (to C.-C.S.); by LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Science) and RUTI (International Joint Research Program of the Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology); and by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This is Caltech Tectonics Observatory contribution number 86 and Earth Observatory of Singapore contribution number 1.

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Caltech Tectonics Observatory, Caltech Tectonics Observatory. Sumatran Plate Boundary

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Funding Agency	Grant Number
NSF	EAR-9628301
NSF	EAR-9804732
NSF	EAR-9903301
NSF	EAR-0208508
NSF	EAR-0530899
NSF	EAR-0538333
NSF	EAR-0809223
NSF	EAR-0207686
NSF	EAR-0537973
National Science Council	94-2116-M002-012
National Science Council	95&96-2752-M002-012-PAE
LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Science)	UNSPECIFIED
RUTI (International Joint Research Program of the Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology)	UNSPECIFIED
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation	UNSPECIFIED

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Caltech Tectonics Observatory	86
Earth Observatory of Singapore	1

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5908

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10.1126/science.1163589

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CaltechAUTHORS:20090708-145717286

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